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I don't remember that at all. I remember them in 2 split beds. In fact, we have DVD's of the first 4 seasons. I'll have to look. Pause this question until further notice...  |
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South Park.
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Come on.......anyone with any grey matter has to say "Seinfeld". It reeks of Amerikana. My post-docs from China watch the Seinfeld reruns to learn English BTY, they are Maoists....or they were). The questions they ask me are unbelievable. I could write a book. They say, "I heard it on Jerry (Jeddy)". "What does it mean?" Imagine how I had to interpret The Master of your Domain and the Single Spit to them.
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Ok, we have had this poll up for over a week and I am ready to declare the winner. Including the write-ins on the thread and choosing "other" on the poll. Any change to the results going forward will not be counted - including oversees ballots.
With 38% of the vote.... The show about nothing.... Your favorite show and mine... SEINFELD And if you're still not convinced, try to get a now 5 page 1 week old thread like This with any other show. I still can't believe NO ONE picked the Honeymooners even once.  That will make me watch a few episodes on DVD this week. |
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I would have to add MASH, King of Queens, Whose line is it Anyway? and News Radio.
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I think you forget how young this crowd is. ___________________________________________________ It's good to try them young too and then let them age - James Suckling Infanticide can be very satisfying - Robert Parker I drink mine young to avoid disappointments - James Laube |
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I know, but it's not like I was alive when the show was originally on the air either. I'm not 70 years old. I guess they don't show them much in re-reruns anymore. |
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Ted Turner will have to "color-ize" it before anyone under 40 will watch it. It was a trend setting show though. Many later comedy shows copied it. Even cartoons adopted the style and characters. |
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Agree with Seinfeld for American comedy....but has anyone ever seen Little Britain? It is hysterically funny!! Fall off your chair, hilarious... Warning, it is NOT very PC!
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How about the Dick Van Dyke Show or the Andy Griffith Show? These were all time classics!!! Great writers and great Characters!!! Not to mention Cheers!!! A great show stands the test of time. Andy Griffith has never been off the air nor has Gilligan's Island for that matter. So all that being said...#1 Andy Griffith (first 5 years anyway) #2 Sienfeld...#3 Cheers #4 Dick Van Dyke and #5 is Mary Tyler More |
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Seinfeld was certainly funny, but the American sitcom that made me laugh my a$$ off more often, and harder, than any other was Frasier. Seinfeld would be number two though.
Both of these were topped however by several Britcoms: Fawlty Towers first, then Yes Minister, then Mr. Bean, and many many others after that (has anyone seen Manchild, Goodness Gracious Me or the Kumars for example?) Yet all of these, in terms of number and painfulness of belly laughs, not to mention cleverness, were topped by our own SCTV. Even funnier for Canadians or those who know Canada, as some of the humour was at the expense of Canadian TV or culture. ------------------- Go Bruins!! Go Tigers!! Go Pistons!! Go Lions!! |
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I loved SCTV before it was pasturized and homogenized by NBC. But strictly speaking, it was a collection of skits loosely held together by a small town, tv studio premise. Not really a sitcom in the classic sense. I wish Doug and Bob MacKenzie would make another movie, though. That would be a beauty, eh?  *********** You never see crazy people walking the streets, screaming about being atheists, do you? |
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Definitely Seinfeld. It's the only sitcom that makes me laugh, rather than chuckle.
I also like Curb Your Enthusiasm a lot. The show with the chef with Tourette's and the one where he goes to Heaven are on par with Seinfeld. My other favorite shows like the Sopranos, Star Trek (original) and the Twilight Zone get chuckles from me every so often. I find it hard to like any show or movie that is not funny. |
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I also liked the show "Fridays" on ABC in the mid 1970's. It was ABC's answer to SNL and starred Michael Richards, Melanie Chartoff, Mark Blankfied, Tim Kazurinski, and others I can't remember.
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Did you see the Fridays episode that Andy Kaufmann was on where he kept flubbing his lines throughout the show until, towards the end, Richards splashed a water glass on him and a ruckus ensued. They were scuffling and immediately went to commercial. Still debated whether it was real or planned.
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I don't remember it, but it sounds vaguely familiar. My favorite skits were Mark Blankfield as the leader of "People Who Hum Between Syllables" and as the druggie pharmacist.
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I liked the guy who did the late night "Spanglish" radio station, though I didn't understand Spanish at the time.
mneeley - the Bob and Doug Christmas song, from their album, got a lot of airtime over the holiday season here. It still made me chuckle every time. But I think one movie was enough... ------------------- Go Bruins!! Go Tigers!! Go Pistons!! Go Lions!! |
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This is a link to a video of the scene I'm talking about with Andy Kaufman. I was wrong in that Andy poured water on Michael. It's rather long, but you can skip about half way through and see what you need.
Friday episode with Andy Kaufman This message has been edited. Last edited by: vinole, "Wine is sunlight held together by water" - Galileo |
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Thanks for the link. I think it was planned, but it's hard to say for sure. Andy was there for the closing.
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I think that anything shocking Andy Kaufman pulled was in all likelihood planned. That was his favorite schtick, pulling off stuff that people would be debating for a long time. With this one, it's been what, 3 decades? I doubt even he would have imagined we'd still be talking about it.
Just look at the whole wrestling thing, and the heckling that Bob whatshisname and he pulled off, and the foreign guy character. It was pure genius, but it was always a prank with the two of them. And I am ashamed that All in the Family hasn't been getting more vocal support. that show was the height of sitcom hilarity and genuine sentimentality. Absolute genius. ----------------------------- Up to the age of forty eating is beneficial. After forty, wine. The Talmud, 200BC |
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I agree it was planned. You can tell the producer's job was really to escalate it, not to calm. He kept saying "Go to commercial", but they never did. The part at the end was staged too. It seemed more believable at the time as Andy flubbed lines throughout the entire show causing a lot of tension before. It was also live, so the impact felt much stronger then. Cali - on tomorrow's walk you should listen to REM's Man on the Moon as a tribute to him.
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I'm in the "planned" camp also. Fridays was tanking in the ratings, and at that point, they had nothing to lose trying to generate publicity.
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Andy Kaufman was just a weirdo and frankly not the comic genius he is often thought of IMO.
The guy faked people out a little and made you go "Oh $hit" once in a while, but have you ever really laughed out loud with anything he ever did? (Ok, maybe when he was Vic on some of the taxi shows )His career was mostly stupid stuff if you ask me, but when you die young - you get extra legend points I guess. Sorry to say. RIP anyway. |
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